Question

Consumer Math The sales tax in the town where Amanda lives is 7%. Amanda paid $35 in sales tax on a new stereo. What was the price of the stereo?

Answer 1

Answer

Find out the what was the price of the stereo .

To prove

Let us assume that the price of the stereo be x .

As given

Consumer Math The sales tax in the town where Amanda lives is 7%.

7% is written in the decimal form

$= \frac{7}{100}$

= 0.07

As given

Amanda paid $35 in sales tax on a new stereo .

Than the equation becomes

x × 0.07 = 35

$x = \frac{35}{0.07}$

solving the above

x = $ 500

Therefore the price of the stereo is $ 500 .

Hence proved